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Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: Microsoft cancels in-person plans for CES, joining Google, Meta, Amazon, Twitter, and others, amid ongoing concerns over COVID-19 — Microsoft joins Intel, GM, Amazon, and Google in canceling — Microsoft is the latest company to drop a physical presence at CES...

I’m annoyed that the magic black box on the table occasionally seems unable to track my hands. My three-year-old, meanwhile, doesn’t seem to mind at all. He’s laughing so hard he can barely breath as he repeatedly vacuums up dinosaurs his grandma is putting on the table from 200 miles away. I...

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Amid COVID-19 concerns, Google, GM, and Waymo cancel in-person plans for CES, following Meta, Amazon, Twitter, and others, while Intel scales back its presence — The world's biggest technology show may not be — CES, the world's largest technology show, appears to...

Karen Weise / New York Times: Amazon reaches a nationwide settlement with the NLRB to let its warehouse employees more easily organize, likely affecting over 1M current and former workers — The agreement's national scope and its concessions to organizing go further than any previous settlement...

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Analysis: since 2018, Amazon has opened 153 US facilities in “opportunity zones”, created by a 2017 law, to access tax breaks whose impact is hard to measure — The company has located delivery stations, fulfillment centers and even an air hub in regions that...

Priya Anand / Bloomberg: Internal docs show Amazon is struggling to retain Alexa device users; in some years between 2018-2021, 15%-25% of new users were no longer active after one week — Each holiday season since 2015, Amazon.com Inc. has counted on selling a lot of its Alexa voice-controlled...

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Labor group seeking to organize workers at four Amazon warehouses in Staten Island refiles its union petition with the NLRB, after withdrawing it in November — - A group of Amazon warehouse workers on New York's Staten Island refiled a request for a union vote, the...

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This morning, dozens of warehouse workers at two Amazon facilities near Chicago staged a pre-Christmas walkout during the busiest time of the year to demand better treatment and higher wages. “We have been passed over for raises. We are being overworked, even when there is sufficient people to...

The Markup: Amazon warehouse workers in Oregon say they saw a spike in COVID-19 cases this fall after the company started rolling back pandemic safety protocols — Two Oregon warehouses have been in an active outbreak for nearly 19 months. Elsewhere in the country, warehouse workers report...

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell on meeting pandemic demand, relationships with Apple and Amazon, killing the Harmony remote line, USB-C, and more — Logitech is one of those ubiquitous companies — it's been around since 1981, selling all kinds of important things...

Washington Post: Survey of 1,058 US internet users: 72% distrust Facebook, 63% TikTok, 60% Instagram, 53% WhatsApp, and 53% YouTube; 53% trust Amazon, 48% Google, and 44% Apple — You'll find all the usual technology suspects inside Mary Veselka's Pearland, Tex., home. There's her iPhone …

Amazon is seeking Indian antitrust watchdog’s approval to buy Catamaran Ventures’ stake in Prione, which operates one of the largest sellers on the e-commerce platform, months after the two firms said they won’t renew their joint venture after May next year. The announcement comes as a surprise...

The Cloudflare Blog: TikTok.com was the most popular domain globally between August and December 2021, after surpassing Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon during 2021 — Loading... Sofia Cardita — The years come and go, Internet traffic continues to grow (at least so far and with...

Politico: Sources detail Amazon's increasingly close relationship with the DOJ and FBI, as it tips off the agencies about employees and third-party sellers — Amazon has increasingly tipped off the Justice Department and FBI to investigate its own employees and the sellers using its platform...

Moneycontrol: MapmyIndia, which provides mapping data to Apple, Amazon, and others, rises 53% on market debut, opening at $20.88 per share after listing at $13.64 — CE Info Systems, popularly known for its brand MapmyIndia, made a strong debut on the bourses on December 21 despite volatility...

Amazon says it has fixed an issue with its Amazon Appstore that was causing issues with app launches for customers who had upgraded to Android 12 on their mobile devices. Earlier this month, reports began to circulate that Amazon’s Appstore was still not functional on Android 12 following its...

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Amazon issues an update to fix its Appstore and the issues that left some Android 12 users with apps that didn't work — Amazon has addressed the issue that had left those with Android 12 phones unable to use apps they had downloaded from the company's Appstore.

Aditya Kalra / Reuters: India's antitrust watchdog CCI suspends Amazon's 2019 deal with Future Group and fines Amazon ~$27M for concealing facts while seeking regulatory approval — India's antitrust agency suspended Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) 2019 deal with Future Group on Friday, potentially denting …

Reuters: How Amazon grew its business in China, including partnering with a government propaganda arm for a books section on Amazon US, AWS-related concessions, and more — Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two...